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Video footage obtained by the Freedom Foundation indicates that SEIU is using state-mandated and taxpayer-funded training sessions for Individual Provider home care aides (IPs) to mislead them into believing that union membership in SEIU 775 is mandatory.

For many individuals, labor unions can elicit strong emotions. For some, belief in the power and worth of labor unions is quasi-religious, perhaps due to the similarities between the “Social Gospel” of some denominations and the alleged motives of the labor movement. It is not without reason that union halls are often referred to as “labor temples.”

In the heavily unionized state of Washington, the imminent 68th anniversary of the Taft-Hartley Act heralds a ballot initiative started at the grassroots level that will restore the working rights of the state’s employees, both union and non-union.

IN Washington state and across the nation, union executives and labor activists are demanding mandatory paid sick leave and a $15 minimum wage for workers. They say it is a “matter of fairness” — workers deserve higher wages and paid time off when they are sick.

Four Deaconess Hospital employees say their jobs are being threatened because they didn’t pay union dues during a nine-month period when there wasn’t a labor contract between the hospital and Service Employees International Union 1199NW.